Synopsis:
Four Charactors In Search Of The Auother gets its inspiration from Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore by Pirandello, in which six different personas entered a theatre unexpectedly, asking the director to put their stories on stage. Initially, their stories were performed by others. Later on, however, the six began performing their own stories, claiming what they were experiencing was not a play, but real life. Though their stories were grotesque, they had to live in such plots again and again. Four trapped people seeking the playwright shares a similar story structure, but the four characters, namely, Zhou Puyuan, Fanyi, Zhou Ping and Sifeng were from another classic theatre Thunderstorm. During a travelling through the Silk Road, these four tragic characters met a sandstorm, and were inexplicably drawn into a swirl. As they regained consciousness, they realized they got trapped by destiny, and only by finding out the playwright who created them could they manage to walk through the desert, to the other side, to get rid of their names, to become a “New Person”.